Soil Microbes Mediate Productivity Differences Between Natural and Plantation Forests.

Xing Zhang, Mengya Yang, Yangyang Liu, Jinkun Ye, Jiechen Tangyu, Jie Gao, Weiguo Liu, Yuchuan Fan

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Xing ZhangCollege of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China.

Mengya YangCollege of Life Sciences, Northeast Agricultural University, Harbin 150030, China.

Yangyang LiuCollege of Life Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China.

Jinkun YeCollege of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China.

Jiechen TangyuCollege of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China.

Jie GaoCollege of Life Sciences, Xinjiang Normal University, Urumqi 830054, China.

Weiguo LiuCollege of Ecology and Environment, Xinjiang University, Urumqi 830046, China.

Yuchuan FanJiyang College, Zhejiang A&F University, Zhuji 311800, China.ORCID 0000-0003-2681-6473

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National Natural Science Foundation of China 32401662

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Abstract

While climate is known to regulate forest productivity, the mechanistic contribution of soil microbial communities-and whether it differs between natural and plantation forests-remains poorly quantified at broad scales. Here, we provide a synthesis-level, unified analysis that jointly evaluates climate, edaphic conditions, and soil microbes to compare mechanistic pathways underlying productivity divergence between forest types. We synthesized 237 observations across China and integrated productivity metrics-gross primary productivity (GPP) and net primary productivity (NPP)-with microbial diversity, dominant taxa, and soil drivers to compare natural and plantation forests within the current environmental coverage. Plantation productivity showed nonlinear responses to microbial diversity and appeared more sensitive than natural forests. Natural forests exhibited higher bacterial Shannon and Chao1 but lower fungal Chao1 and were characterized by taxa such as

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biotic–abiotic interactionsforest productivitymicrobial diversity and functionsoil microbial communities

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PMID41515043

DOI10.3390/plants15010098

PMCPMC12787416

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